05/29/2026
Ok guys. Storytime....
Back in year one, when we were all just trying to survive the chaos of opening this crazy restaurant, I brought down a tray of raspberry splits from home with the thought of eventually planting them out in the valley that you can see through our dining room windows.
For those who don’t know, I’m an amateur winemaker and my landscaping at home is almost entirely edible. I’ve always preferred things you can eat (and turn into wine, lol) over decorative landscaping, so my thought process was basically, “raspberries are prettier than briars and pine trees, and either I or the wildlife can find a use for the fruit” 😂
Anyway, I set the tray in the kitchen and kept saying I’d plant them “tomorrow.”
Tomorrow turned into the next day… and then the next day… because honestly, I was barely keeping my head above water at the time, let alone worrying about landscaping!?
Meanwhile, John was wandering through the kitchen, watering those little raspberry plants every single day.
And every day he’d ask:
“So… when are you planting those raspberries?”
And every day I’d answer:
“Maybe this afternoon.”
“Tomorrow morning.”
“Soon.”
Well apparently one day, he had officially heard enough of my “tomorrows.” 😂
At 83 years old, he marched himself out into the valley, onto that hillside, and planted every single one of them himself.
There were maybe 10 little shoots total that survived into year 2.
A couple days ago I walked outside to check on the wildflowers and realized those original plants have now spread into what has to be 35-40 raspberry plants running across that hillside.
And truthfully, it made me stop moving for a minute.
Because....
Some of the best things around here have happened completely unintentionally.
And a lot of Legacy was built exactly like those raspberries: a little chaotic, slightly unplanned, a project that was an idea that got started and was picked up by someone else and finished... and somehow, it's all grown into way more than any of us ever expected?!
So if you’ve ever looked out those windows on your way to the bathrooms and seen that wild hillside, looked for our fat rabbit or crazy turkey and saw the flowers instead… now you know the story behind part of it!! ♥️ -Heather
